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If a Song Could Raise an Army

If a Song Could Raise an Army
Per quanto io condivida quasi tutta la "poetica" di Rovics, la sua esagerata prolificità, insieme ai suoi oggettivi limiti musicali, mi infastidisce...

La stessa sensazione che mi restituiscono le "canzoni" di Marco Valdo MI, pure lui prolificissimo, e senza neppure proporsi in musica...

Scrivere così tanto e invano forse soddisfa il loro ego, non certo l'ascoltatore/lettore...

Preferisco sempre la qualità alla quantità.

Parere personale...
πολεμικός 2024/5/5 - 16:24
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Baby Jesus Lying in the Rubble

Baby Jesus Lying in the Rubble
2024
Notes From A Holocaust
She was looking for a place to have a baby (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/5/4 - 09:27
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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The Apocalypse Will Be Televised

The Apocalypse Will Be Televised
2024
Notes From A Holocaust
Such a carpet-bombing nowhere has ever borne (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/5/4 - 09:26
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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Pogroms of Judea and Samaria

Pogroms of Judea and Samaria
2024
Notes From A Holocaust
As the IOF is bombing Gaza into dust (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/5/4 - 09:24
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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Famine and Disease

Famine and Disease
2024
Notes From A Holocaust
In the places they report it, if you listen to the news (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/5/4 - 09:23
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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Once the Last Palestinian's Killed

Once the Last Palestinian's Killed
2024
Notes From A Holocaust
In the Congress and the Bundestag you’ll see them wring their hands (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/5/4 - 09:22
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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Humanitarian Pause

Humanitarian Pause
2024
Notes From A Holocaust
After targeting emergency responders (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/5/4 - 09:03
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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Stop the Genocide

Stop the Genocide
2024
Notes From A Holocaust
The story begins, they’ll say, in the fall of ‘23 (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/5/4 - 09:00
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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As the Bombs Rain Down

As the Bombs Rain Down
2024
Notes From A Holocaust
Hear the drones above your head (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/5/4 - 08:58
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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Flour Massacre

Flour Massacre
2024
Bearing Witness
Almost five months since the blockade was complete (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/5/4 - 08:52
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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Taking to the Waves

Taking to the Waves
2024
Bearing Witness
Since the siege began, across humanity (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/5/4 - 08:51
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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Song for Gaza

Song for Gaza
2024
Bearing Witness
If I could sing a song for every bomb that flies (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/5/4 - 08:49
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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This Is Genocide

This Is Genocide
2024
Bearing Witness
This is genocide, it is not a war (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/5/4 - 08:45
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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Boycott, Sanction, and Divest

Boycott, Sanction, and Divest
April 24

I spent the day writing a song for the students, staff, and faculty at Columbia University who have been risking a lot to take a very bold stand -- and them along with growing numbers of students, staff, and faculty at growing numbers of other institutions!
Patreon
It’s happening now, like it has before
(Continues)
2024/5/3 - 14:24
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The House Un-Israeli Activities Committee

The House Un-Israeli Activities Committee
(2024)

"Antisemitism" is the new "communism" -- have you ever said anything that could be construed in someone's convoluted mind as somehow anti-Jewish? Iran is the new USSR, Elise Stefanik is the new Joe McCarthy, and the House Un-Israeli Activities Committee is going strong, ruining one life at a time, and striking fear throughout academia and beyond.
New song: "The House Un-Israeli Activities Committee"
f you imagine when considering a slogan
(Continues)
2024/5/3 - 09:12
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A luta continua (Keep on Looting)

A luta continua (Keep on Looting)
2020

I've long thought it was convenient and appropriate that the English word "loot" and the Portuguese word for "struggle" sound very similar. The powers-that-be are looting the people and the planet in so many ways every day of the year, but on rare occasions when some people dare loot back a little, like in Chicago a couple nights ago, it's time to call in the National Guard.
Since before Massasoit let the settlers in, long since they took over the west
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/4/4 - 09:45
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Song for Aaron Bushnell

Song for Aaron Bushnell
(2024)
Bearing Witness

On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. Immediately prior to the live-streamed act, Bushnell said that he was protesting against "what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers" and declared that he "will no longer be complicit in genocide", after which he doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire.

As he burned, Bushnell repeatedly shouted "Free Palestine!" while one Secret Service officer pointed a gun at him and two others attempted to extinguish him.
Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell - Wikipedia
On the 25th of February, 2024
(Continues)
2024/3/6 - 23:01
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Lines Are Drawn

Lines Are Drawn
(2024)

One of the most well-known aspects of the Second World War was that the virulently anti-communist leaders of countries like the United Kingdom made an alliance with the Soviet Union, because of the mutual interest they all thought they had in defeating Hitler. Here we are again -- but where's the united front against fascism?
Around the world people try to read the signs
(Continues)
2024/1/28 - 15:09
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Antisemite

Antisemite
(1 Jan 2024)

Word on the street is the Zionist narrative is losing traction, so to help shore it up I have written a wee jingle for the ADL.
If you are a fan of democracy
(Continues)
2024/1/6 - 18:31
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Just Like the Nazis Did

Just Like the Nazis Did
December 14, 2023

2024
Notes From A Holocaust
After so many decades of patronage
(Continues)
2023/12/25 - 18:11
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Without Henry Kissinger

Without Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger's reign of terror is over (having been very effectively passed on to his protege, Antony Blinken).
He was born in 1923
(Continues)
2023/12/25 - 18:05
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It’s Christmas Eve

It’s Christmas Eve
December 24, 2023
It’s Christmas Eve, stores are stuffed to the gills
(Continues)
2023/12/25 - 18:01
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Once the Last Palestinian's Killed

Once the Last Palestinian's Killed
2 dec. 2023

Once the last Palestinian is killed, then the pundits and politicians will say "how could we have known," and they'll open another museum.
In the Congress and the Bundestag you’ll see them wring their hands
(Continues)
2023/12/25 - 17:56
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They're Killing Off the Journalists of Gaza

They're Killing Off the Journalists of Gaza
Samer Abudaqqa had his camera in his hand
(Continues)
2023/12/17 - 23:55
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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They Were Raising a White Flag

They Were Raising a White Flag
2024
Notes From A Holocaust
They were raising a white flag
(Continues)
2023/12/17 - 23:48
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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At the End of World War 3

At the End of World War 3
2022
Also recorded by Chet Gardiner

It is abundantly evident that the world is closer to a nuclear holocaust than at any time since 1962.
At the end of World War 3, amid the lightning and thunder
(Continues)
2022/7/9 - 18:28
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So This Is What It's Like

So This Is What It's Like
[2019]
Parole e musica di David Rovics
Album: Strangers & Friends

"To live in a country with concentration camps." - David Rovics
So this is what it's like to live in such a place
(Continues)
Contributed by hmmwv 2021/4/16 - 20:18
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The Pogroms of 1969

The Pogroms of 1969
2020
Rebel Songs (free the immagination)
You could say it started long ago, or keep one lifetime in your sights
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2021/3/27 - 11:16
Song Itineraries: Conflicts in Ireland
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I Dreamed I Saw Anne Feeney

I Dreamed I Saw Anne Feeney
(2021)

An old friend of mine and Anne's suggested I do another rewrite of Earl Robeson's song about Joe Hill. I began with carrying out Robert's songwriting assignment, but then it turned into this. I miss you, Anne.
I dreamed I saw Anne Feeney, it was on a picket line
(Continues)
2021/2/13 - 19:53
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Normandy

Normandy
2020
Viral Solidarity
If I could live to see the day, say eighty years from now
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2020/12/7 - 19:55
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Say Their Names

Say Their Names
2020
Say their names
Jacob Blake(1) was walking to his SUV
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2020/12/7 - 19:43
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Elijah Played the Violin

Elijah Played the Violin
2020
Say their names

Elijah Jovan McClain, un massaggiatore afroamericano di 23 anni di Aurora in Colorado, fu ucciso la sera del 24 agosto 2019 a seguito di un'aggressione perpetrata dagli agenti di polizia Nathan Woodyard, Jason Rosenblatt e Randy Roedema e di un'iniezione di ketamina come sedativo dai paramedici. Un cittadino di Aurora aveva segnalato alla polizia che McClain si stava comportando in modo sospetto indossando una maschera da sci. La stessa persona aveva però anche indicato che non credeva che qualcuno fosse in pericolo e che pensava che McClain fosse disarmato. I tre poliziotti [1] dichiararono che le loro telecamere a corpo andarono fuori uso durante una colluttazione con McClain ma le riprese della telecamera di almeno un ufficiale dimostrano che l'affermazione era falsa. La registrazione mostra come all'agente fu chiesto di allontanare la telecamera dall'immagine di... (Continues)
His family moved from Denver to Aurora
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2020/12/7 - 19:08
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Ballad of Lachlan Macquarie

Ballad of Lachlan Macquarie
2020
Say their names

Lachlan Macquarie (Ulbha, 31 gennaio 1762 – Londra, 1º luglio 1824) è stato un generale scozzese. Fu governatore coloniale nel Nuovo Galles del Sud, in Australia, ed ebbe un ruolo cruciale nello sviluppo economico e sociale del territorio, che sotto la sua guida cominciò la transizione da colonia penale a libero insediamento.
Lachlan Macquarie was a Scotsman who
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2020/12/7 - 19:03
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November 2020

November 2020
[2020]
The election has been won but the loser won't concede
(Continues)
Contributed by hmmwv 2020/11/25 - 22:01
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Born on the Fourth of July

[2020]

I'm watching a country built on the foundations of slavery, genocide, real estate speculation and fantasy crumble before my eyes. May it crumble faster, and may I live to see the dust settle.
As I walk down the streets of this city
(Continues)
Contributed by adriana 2020/7/7 - 09:29
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Ballad of Alvaro Luna Hernandez

Ballad of Alvaro Luna Hernandez
[2020]
Lyrics & music by David Rovics
Album: Notes from a Failed State

A handsome man targeted by the local police in Alpine, Texas from an early age, Alvaro Luna Hernandez has been in prison since 1996, for the crime of daring to defend himself against a racist police officer with murderous intent.
Alvaro Luna Hernandez
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2020/6/15 - 08:45
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If They Defunded the Police

If They Defunded the Police
[2020]

No matter what is said about it, the ruling class in the US will not defund the police. To do so would be to overthrow their brutally unequal, sick form of society. But it's nice to imagine what it might be like to be liberated. David Rovics
If they defunded the police, what would we do
(Continues)
Contributed by adriana 2020/6/13 - 17:00
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As I Watch Minneapolis Burn

As I Watch Minneapolis Burn
[2020]
Notes from a Failed State
Are people still lynched in America – and what happens when they die
(Continues)
Contributed by adriana 2020/5/30 - 07:58
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I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe
from The Other Side, released August 31, 2015

I wrote this song, "I Can't Breathe," after the death of Eric Garner. Unfortunately, it's now also about George Floyd.


I Can't Breath, non respiro! Le stesse parole di Eric Garner 5 anni fa e oggi di George Floyd, afroamericano di 46 anni, ucciso per soffocamento da un agente di polizia a Minneapolis, USA davanti a diversi passanti che hanno iniziato a riprendere la scena. Nel video si vede il poliziotto che lo blocca a terra con un ginocchio all'altezza del collo rimanendo in quella posizione con tutto il peso del corpo per diversi minuti nonostante le proteste dei presenti.

Wake up in the morning, nowhere you can hide
(Continues)
2020/5/27 - 22:52
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1933

1933
[2018]
Parole e musica di David Rovics
Album: Historic Times
History doesn't repeat, they say, but it often appears it does
(Continues)
Contributed by hmmwv 2020/5/24 - 19:27
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Neither King Nor Kaiser

Neither King Nor Kaiser
[2014]
Lyrics & music by David Rovics
Album: When I'm Elected President & Wayfaring Stranger (double album)

NeitherKingNorKaiser is the tag the Europe-based campaign is using to remember the imperial carnage that was World War I in a more accurate light.

It was a war that was opposed by the majority, and fought on behalf of the few.
A hundred years ago today
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2020/5/4 - 14:25
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Still Waiting for the Change

Still Waiting for the Change
[2011]
Lyrics & music by David Rovics
Album: Ten New Songs (double album)

A song for president Obama. (And his entire party. And the other party, too, for that matter) ..
A perfect example of a politician. That is, he unfailingly represents the basic truth about politicians worldwide – that it doesn't matter what they say, or how eloquently they say it. All that matters is what they do. And with Obama, what he says and what he does have nothing to do with each other. Any progressive person who still thinks otherwise is either deluded or not paying attention (or both).
I remember in 2008
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2020/4/21 - 15:25
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Waiting for Their Checks to Come

Waiting for Their Checks to Come
[2020]

At least ten million renters in the US began the month of April, 2020 by withholding their rent -- for most of them, because it was either pay rent this month, or eat. Those among the now teeming ranks of the unemployed and housing insecure in the US who qualify for it are now anxiously awaiting the money the federal government says it will start disbursing in the coming week.
The world shut down last month
(Continues)
Contributed by adriana 2020/4/12 - 13:49
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The Pandemic of 1918

The Pandemic of 1918
[2020]
Lyrics & music by David Rovics
Album: Viral Solidarity

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet’s population—and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans. The 1918 flu was first observed in Europe, the United States and parts of Asia before swiftly spreading around the world. At the time, there were no effective drugs or vaccines to treat this killer flu strain. Citizens were ordered to wear masks, schools, theaters and businesses were shuttered and bodies piled up in makeshift morgues before the virus ended its deadly global march..
A world war was raging,
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2020/4/9 - 09:33
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Viral Solidarity

Viral Solidarity
2020

"We recorded my latest ditty, "Viral Solidarity," Saturday evening in Brisbane, Australia, at what will probably be my last gig for a little while. Now I'm back in the US, heading home to Portland, to see what happens next."
(David Rovics)
There's foreboding in the air
(Continues)
2020/3/15 - 15:45
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Corona Virus Climate Catastrophe Fascist Empire 2020 Blues Massacree

Corona Virus Climate Catastrophe Fascist Empire 2020 Blues Massacree
[2020]
The virus is spreading, I'm under lockdown
(Continues)
Contributed by adriana 2020/3/9 - 08:54
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Frieden Und Freiheit

Frieden Und Freiheit
[2015]
Album : The Other Side

Franz Jacob (August 9, 1906 – September 18, 1944) was a German Resistance fighter against the National Socialists and a Communist politician.
Franz Jacob was a man, grandfather of a friend of yours
(Continues)
Contributed by DQ82 2018/12/28 - 14:29
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They All Sang the Internationale

They All Sang the Internationale
[2015]

Album : The Other Side

Katharina Hochmuth Jacob (March 6, 1907 – August 23, 1989) was a teacher and member of the German Resistance movement against National Socialism. She was married to Franz Jacob, a German Resistance fighter who was executed by the Nazis.
Katharina Jacob, long before she took that name
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2018/12/28 - 14:24
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Denmark 1943

Denmark 1943
[2015]
Album : The Other Side
When we heard the news that we were to be arrested
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2018/12/28 - 14:14
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Stolpersteine

Stolpersteine
2016
1939

Stumbling stones. A German artist named Gunter Demnig started putting little bronze squares in the sidewalks of German cities in 1992. Now there are thousands of them in several different countries in Europe. They are placed in front of the homes and workshops from which people were taken to be sent to concentration camps, primarily. It's a powerful form of art, turning much of Germany into a permanent exhibit, a constant reminder of what has been, and what must never be.

Pietre d'inciampo. Un artista tedesco Gunter Demnig ha iniziato a posizionare delle piccole lapidi di bronzo sui marciapiedi delle città tedesche nel 1992. Adesso ce ne sono migliaia sparse in diverse nazioni europee, posizionate di fronte alle case o alle botteghe, da cui le perosne sono state prelevate per essere portate nei campi di sterminio. E' una forma d'arte piena di forza, che trasforma la Germania... (Continues)
When I first showed up in Deutschland, camping on the Rhine
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2018/12/27 - 15:57




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